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The proceedings from the 2016 conference on conservative scoliosis treatment (SOSORT Society) recently came out. https://scoliosisjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13013-017-0124-0 Some of t...Read More

When you go see your orthopedic surgeon and ask him/her whether exercise-based treatment might be an option for you – they will almost always respond that there is no evidence that exercises hav...Read More

This is a very controversial question. Any orthopedic surgeon will say that yes, of course it does – on the average. But in fact the research literature seems to be undecided on the point. It is...Read More

As mentioned elsewhere my wife suffers from scoliosis. Though her curves are quite severe (45/55) she has tried to avoid surgery and has so far been successful. However, she has had x-rays taken of he...Read More

Some years ago we purchased the spinal stretch device for my wife who is a long term sufferer of scoliosis with degrees of 45/55. My wife never had surgery and we are constantly looking for methods to...Read More

For many years it has been said that heavy backpacks is one of the causes for scoliosis developing in children. However, there is limited scientific evidence for this. A study by Siambanes from 2004 (...Read More

We have two daughters who still have not entered puberty. Due to their mother’s scoliosis and the proven hereditary nature of scoliosis, we are naturally very concerned that one or both of them ...Read More

When my wife was around 27-28, her scoliosis had started to give her a lot of pain. Her curves are 45/55 degrees which is quite severe. She wore a boston brace as a teenager which stabilized the curve...Read More